Diseases > Chronic Inflammatory and Degenerative Diseases > Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a chronic illness of the connective tissue. Patients commonly “hurt all over”, and their suffering is often magnified by the fact that because the source of the disease is unknown physicians have been known to discount the patient’s symptoms.

Conventional medicine to date has been unable to pinpoint the cause(s) of fibromyalgia. Because it is a disease of the soft tissue, which pervades the entire body, patient symptoms tend to be diverse and change frequently. Consequently, the illness is often believed to be pshychosomatic. This point of view does the patient a great disservice! Like many diseases, fibromyalgia does have a psychological component, which is magnified when diverse therapies are administered without effect. The disease is often related to hormonal and pre-menopausal conditions (this is why women are affected more frequently than men), which are frequently expressed on mental and emotional levels.

The psychological symptoms of many patients come from a substantial weakness of the parasympathetic nervous system. Resignation, tension, sleep problems, even a secondary depression can result. The relationship between the tonus (spontaneous tensile state) of the parasympathetic nervous system, and its opponent, the sympathetic nervous system, has strongly shifted. We can measure this objectively with our new test method, the Heart Rate Variability Test.


Etiology (Causes)
Acidic substances or other "free radicals" are stored in the intermediate cell tissues. Very frequently patients have an "over acidified" mesenchyme due to protein overload. Histamines and serotonins magnify the problem, which is why hidden food allergies must be addressed. Without individual, focused dietary therapy there can be no success! Most diets fail to bring results because allergens are not fully eliminated and no effort is made to neutralize acidification.

Suffering always has orthomolecular aspects: the essential amino acids are not plentiful enough, but too many free amino acids are bound in the cell tissues, which then bind H+ - ions (bound acids). Calcium is usually stored in the soft tissues, which promotes tissue rigidity on a long-term basis and magnifies bone decalcifying processes. The unsaturated fatty acids in the blood (practically never considered in conventional medicine, but of the greatest importance) have a fundamental influence on hidden inflammatory processes in the body. Improper nutrition leads to a substantial lack of these high-quality fats, and a strong perponderance of the inflammation-promoting saturated or transexamic fatty acids.

Fibromyalgia usually involves a problem with endorphins. Low dose naltrexone improves the body’s endorphins and shows a clear improvement within four to six weeks in 30% of fibromyalgias patients. Through darkfield microscopy, we have further observed the reduction of "blood magnetism", or the decreased cell charge of erythrocytes. This can be improved with a strict orthomolecular therapy, removal of neutralizing electromagnetic fields, and improvement of the oxygen therapy (e.g. ozone therapy). The more cells are supplied with oxygen, the less the lactate producing acidosis of the tissues, with a corresponding decrease in pain. Treatment of the underlying lactacidosis of the tissues with homoeopathic organic acids (Sanum remedies) can decrease or affect these organic acids.

Newly-recognized relationships exist between the polysaccharides in the mesenchyme and at the cell walls, which cause the osmotic tensile state of these tissues: it can be shown that the binding behavior of glucosamines is changed by sugars and lactose released in the skin tissues. With clockwise rotating galactose, however, the glucosamine connections can be normalized again. Pain receptors in the soft tissues are also thereby changed.

Paticularly important in treatment of fibromyalgia is the recognition of cell-wall free bacteria. Research shows an increase in chronic and hidden bacterial infections. Patients with an extensive history of antibiotic treatments are more often susceptible to fibromyalgia. American researchers have indicated that bacteria are only partially killed with antibiotic therapy, and are able to change into “cell wall-free bacterial forms”, which remain in the skin tissues and have an antigenic effect. Because they are not fully recognized as antigens, they are not processed through inflammation, but rather lead only to partial immune reactions. An ingenious therapeutic form of the haptens (partial antigens in polysaccharide form), developed by the company Sanum in Germany, makes these cell wall-free forms recognizable again for the immune system by antigen marking. Such phenomena are described by mycoplasmas, chlamydia, staphylococci, cephalosporins and brucella. We have developed specific therapy forms (Sanukehle) to address these partially pathogenic exciters. Very frequently these cell wall-free bacteria are visible with the darkfield microscopy of the vital blood (without coloring).


Treatment
Because of the imbalance in their autonomic nervous system (which has physical causes) the patients are in a constant tensile state. They require an intensive regenerative therapy of the parasympathetic nervous system with neural therapies, and regeneration of the intestinal mucosa flora, which are the carriers of parasympathetic activity. Patients are done an injustice with anti-depressive treatment, which only decreases the liver function and thus the detoxification of the body. Anti-depressive medications only create eternal patients! Patients are not psychologically ill or depressed; they are in a continuous sympathotonic tensile state through the reduction of parasympathetic activity. Magnesium, potassium, manganese, as well as other trace elements, improves the condition.

Success Ratio
Fibromyalgia is a classic example of an illness that produces tremendous costs under conventional medical treatment because those treatments are ineffective. One to three weeks of stationary therapy at the Paracelsus Clinic, followed by six months therapy at home, can produce a largely pain-free condition in the majority of patients. The treatment at home is simple and involves, for example, simple dietary conversion and biological medicines. Further Paracelsus alkaline infusions with detoxifying medicines and trace elements may be necessary every two weeks for some months, but only on an out-patient basis with the family doctor. We have been doing this kind of treatment very successfully for several years; in 80-90% of the cases we see a considerable improvement, and large conventional medical treatments or clarifications are no longer necessary.